Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Beside this act, all atteindors of this king enacted by king Edward and king Richard were adnihila|ted, and the record of the same iudged to be defaced; and all persons atteinted for his cause and occasion were restored to their goods, lands, and possessions. Diuerse acts also made in the time of king Edward and king Richard were reuoked, and other adiudged more expedient for the common wealth were put in their places and concluded. After the dissolution of this parlement, the king remembring his fréends left in hostage beyond the seas,The king re|d [...]meth his [...]ostages. that is to wit, the marquesse Dorset, & sir Iohn Bourchier, he with all conuenient spéed redéemed them, and sent also into Flanders for Iohn Morton bishop of Elie. These acts performed, he chose to be of his councell a con|uenient number of right graue and wise councel|lors.
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See the histo|rie of Englãd pag. 124. See also D. Powels histo|rie of Wales, pag. 2, and 376, 377, &c.
Omnia sunt regno subdita regna Dei.Gu. Ha. in psal. 103. ]
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now although by this meanes all things séemed to be brought in good and perfect order, yet there lac|ked a wrest to the harpe, to set all the strings in a monocord and perfect tune, which was the matrimo|nie to be finished betweene the king and the ladie E|lizabeth, daughter to king Edward. Which like a good prince, according to his oth, & promise, he did both so|lemnize & consummate shortlie after, that is to saie, on the eightéenth daie of Ianuarie.King Henrie the seuenth ta|keth to wife Elizabeth el|dest daughter of Edward the fourth. By reason of which marriage, peace was thought to descend out of heauen into England, considering that the lines of Lancaster and Yorke were now brought into one knot, and connexed togither, of whose two bodies one heire might succeed to rule and inioie the whole mo|narchie and realme of England, which before was rent and diuided into factions & partakings, where|by manie a mans life was lost, great spoiles made of peoples goods, wast of wealth, worship, and honor, all which ended in this blessed and gratious conne|xion, authorised by God, as our Anglorum praelia saith:
Hoc Deus omnipotens pacis confecerat author,In Hen. 7.Ciuilísque habuit tandem contentio finem.